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Poison Centre

Online social networking and US poison control centers: Facebook as a means of information distribution

Kathy VoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Craig SmollinSan Francisco Division, California Poison Control System, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Pages 466-469 | Received 05 Aug 2014, Accepted 29 Jan 2015, Published online: 12 Mar 2015

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